sporting behaviours

• Sportsmanship

  The sporting behaviour you would like to see in sport
• Sportsmanship

  • Performers display good conduct and do not try to win by unfair means
  • Shows respect to their opponents and officials
  • Shakes hands with opponents
  • Kicking the ball out of play if an opponent is injured
  • Being honest if the ball is out or if they break a rule
• Gamesmanship

  The type of behaviour that you should not see from performers in sport, bending the rules (not breaking them) to gain an unfair advantage
• Gamesmanship

  • Playing for time if winning
  • Entering a weaker team if the following match is more important
  • Sledging in cricket
• Sportsmanship

  • Creates good role models
  • Positive image for the sport
  • Satisfaction to know you have won honestly
• Gamesmanship

  • Creates bad role models
  • Negative image for the sport
  • Dissatisfaction to know you have won due to an unfair advantage
• Advantages of spectators

  • Creation of atmosphere
  • Home-field advantage
• Disadvantages of spectators

  • Increasing pressure
  • Safety costs/concerns
  • Negative effect on participation numbers among young people
  • Potential for crowd trouble/hooliganism
• Reasons for hooliganism

  • Rivalries (local derby)
  • Hype (from media)
  • Fuelled by drugs/alcohol
  • Gang culture
  • Frustration (official's decision)
  • Displays of masculinity
• Strategies to prevent hooliganism

  • Bans, fines, prison
  • Increased security
  • Segregation
  • Early kick-offs
  • All seater stadiums
  • Alcohol restrictions
  • Education
• Hooliganism can often be fuelled by drinking excessive alcohol
• CCTV at stadiums help prevent unwanted Hooliganism
• Deviance


  Behaviour that falls outside the laws of a sport or is deemed unacceptable
• Examples of deviance


  • PEDs
  • violent conduct
  • match fixing
  • professional fouls
• Reasons for deviance


  • high pressure to win
  • lack of moral constraint
  • rewards of winning are to high
  • "win at all cost mentality"